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When Mom has to go out of town, Stanley decides to blast off to outer space. But who's this small martian returning in his place who doesn't follow earthling rules?On the day that Stanley's mom takes a work trip overnight, Stanley decides to leave planet Earth. But when his spaceship touches down again in the backyard, a young martian crawls out, proclaiming to Stanley's dad that residents of Mars don't wash before dinner, eat their vegetables, or brush their teeth. It just so happens that martians tend to act out in school, too. . . . With whimsy and sympathy for a familiar dilemma, Simon James ushers us into the coping fantasies of an imaginative, sensitive kid - and shares the pleasure of his sheepish reunion with a most accepting family.



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Simon James

When speaking about his influences, Simon James talks fondly of the cartoon collections he found on his father's book shelves. As a boy, he grew to love The New Yorker Magazine cartoonists. Artist's such as George Booth, Charles Addams, William Steig and James Sevenson all captured the imagination of a young boy who liked to make little stapled books with pictures and words for his own amusement. Simon James' first book was the outrageously funny, 'The Day Jake Vacuumed', quickly followed by two more books about Jake. 'My Friend Whale', was the first of several concerned with a child's relationship with the natural world - 'Dear Greenpeace', 'Sally and the Limpet', 'The Wild Woods' and 'The Birdwatchers' have established Simon as one of the country's leading author/illustrators. 'Leon and Bob' won the Smarties Book Prize Silver Award and was the New York Times' Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and 'Days Like This', a collection of small poems, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. 'Baby Brains' was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2005, voted for by 25,000 children. Simon continues to be a much sought-after speaker in schools, and at festivals and conferences both in the UK and in the US. He continues to enjoy international success with his latest books, 'George Flies South', 'Nurse Clementine' and 'Rex'. His latest title, due out this year is 'The Boy From Mars'.



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